{"id":1242,"date":"2017-05-13T08:52:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T15:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2017-05-13T08:52:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T15:52:59","slug":"amazon-metadata-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2017\/05\/amazon-metadata-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Items appearing in an Amazon search for Bench Grinder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shall we speak for a moment about Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s epic metadata problem?<\/p>\n<p>On amazon.com, search for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bench Grinder\u00e2\u20ac\u009d&#8211;a query with clear intent if there ever was one. Search by price low to high. Here are some items that appear in the results before a single piece of hardware you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d reasonably call a bench grinder&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Water &amp; Wood 13mm Thickness Resin Polishing Grinding Pad Wheel for Concrete Marble<\/li>\n<li>1\/4&#8243; HSS cutting tool blank<\/li>\n<li>MAXGOODS 2PCS Fix It Pro Clear Car Coat Scratch Cover Remove Repair Painting Pen Clear Coat Applicator,with 10&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>4 Parts Chromium Crusher Herb Grinder (35mm)<\/li>\n<li>Vitrex Sanding &amp; Loft Insulation Standard Moulded Mask FFP1<\/li>\n<li>Black &amp; Decker 284422-00 Restl.H.Tool<\/li>\n<li>Razor Sharp Edgemaking Rouge<\/li>\n<li>ZFE\u00c2\u00ae 1\/4&#8243;,3\/8&#8243;,1\/2&#8243;,5\/8&#8243; Shank Roundwood Tenon Drill Steel for Bench\/pist Drill<\/li>\n<li>Integrated Flex Splash Block &#8211; 1 Each<\/li>\n<li>Bees Wax for Lubricating &amp; Cooling Gritted Paper Wheel &#8211; Pro Sharpening Supplies<\/li>\n<li>Ryobi BGH616 Bench Grinder (2 Pack) Replacement Switch # 602101-2pk<\/li>\n<li>THANYA Salt Spice Pepper Mills Grinder Black Electric<\/li>\n<li>BORA 560019 Marking Gauge; Beechwood<\/li>\n<li>Mini Hand Drill<\/li>\n<li>NOVA 47000 Comet II Versaturn Coupler Lathe Accessory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At this point, on page 20 of the results, I still have not encountered a single bench grinder.<\/p>\n<p>Cory Doctorow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.well.com\/~doctorow\/metacrap.htm\">Metacrap<\/a> is more relevant than ever. C\u00e2\u20ac\u2122mon Amazon, get your act together. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re more search engine than anything now. You can do better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shall we speak for a moment about Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s epic metadata problem? On amazon.com, search for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bench Grinder\u00e2\u20ac\u009d&#8211;a query with clear intent if there ever was one. Search by price low to high. Here are some items that appear in the results before a single piece of hardware you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d reasonably call a bench grinder&#8230; Water &amp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annoyance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eo8l-k2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}